Search: Home Spotlight, 07/2019

In March of this year the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) directed the City of San Francisco take over the long-embattled SF Housing Authority. HUD instructed the agency to develop a plan to relinquish all of the agency’s operations and programs. The Housing Choice Voucher Program and the Long-Term Lease Program were the last 2 remaining programs administered by 90 members of SEIU 1021.  

Members at the agency received layoff notices, and days later they went into action to fight for a fair separation agreement.

On July 23, the Emeryville City Council voted 5-0 to abandon an amendment to the minimum wage ordinance that would have lowered wages for hundreds of workers. In 2015 at the urging of Local 1021 and a coalition of labor and community groups, Emeryville’s City Council passed an annual minimum wage increase through July 2020. 

Online platform workers are organizing together to demand living wages, benefits, transparency, and a voice on the job. They’re exposing the ugly truth behind the business practices of billion-dollar gig corporations that profit off of their hard work without following labor standards.